Thursday, July 19, 2007

The lord said to Noah, there's gonna be a floody floody

It rained yesterday. I didn't take any pictures, as I was busy sprinting across campus in a white t-shirt to make it to an appointment that was canceled for obvious reasons, but I lifted some pix off the internets. Yesterday was the biggest rainstorm Jinan has seen. EVER. Or at least since 1912, when they began keeping track. Depends who you ask, but anywhere from 30-50 people died within Jinan, who knows how many outside the city. Among the casualties was my computer, which had to be sent straight to rehab. In all seriousness, this totally sucked, and the city is a complete mess. 5 lane roads are completely torn up, there's debris everywhere, the biggest shopping center in town is basically completely destroyed, who knows how long it will take to fix everything.
This is the town square and underground mall, which flooded to the ceiling.



























For more pictures set to some poppy Chinese music, fast forward to 0:25/-5:45.

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